The Senate voted 73-27 today, killing a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry. The bipartisan group of lawmakers that opposed the incentive called the tax break needless. Many on the right and left opposed the measure for various reasons, but we opposed the […]

It claims that higher taxes will help unemployment somehow and now the SEIU is taking it our on a wireless phone store. Sounds a little off target. ALG’s Brad Tidwell tries to make sense of it…and he has to try hard.

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Breaking: Weiner says he will resign America’s job creators face uphill battle The EPA’s fantasy solution to unemployment Obama blames high unemployment on ATM’s… Time to listen to Ron Paul and audit the Fed Unemployment and economic recovery The time is now to kick the stimulus habit Union demands in collective bargaining agreements should be open to taxpayer scrutiny UFCW attacks Walmart after the company helps inner city children Unfair labor practices Why 70% tax rates won’t work NLRB off the wall on Facebook regulation Republicans vs. the environment He who lives by legislation… The real budget problem

Embattled Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has told friends that he will resign from Congress, according to the New York Times . As the NYT reported: Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House […]

By Rebekah Rast – President Obama recently commented , “I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen.” His promise, made in 2009, that if Congress passed the “stimulus” package unemployment would not rise above 8 percent , has […]

By Bill Wilson – Everyone tends to pull a punch now and again, even here at Americans for Limited Government.  Things go unsaid, but sometimes they must be said.  Today is one of those days. The beauty of a recent piece by Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff, “End Game,” is that it pulls no punches.  In it, Schiff […]

Further exposing the never ending hatred that Big Labor has for Walmart, here is this gem out of New York City where the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union Local 1500 is attacking Walmart for making a $5 million donation to a New York City program that helps city children get summer jobs. The program that Walmart had donated the money to was severely underfunded, and Mayor Michael […]

By Kevin Mooney — One way to push back against the power and influence of public employee unions is to open up collective bargaining agreements to taxpayer scrutiny. The success Republican governors have had in Wisconsin, New Jersey and Ohio in cementing financial reform over […]

In a strange response in an interview conducted by NBC , Obama blamed modern technology, even specifically blaming ATM’s at banks and ticketing kiosks at airports, as causes of the high rate of unemployment in America. Obama stated, “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Is the Fed insolvent? Labor department facilitates union corruption Obama and the ghost of Hoover The serious cost underestimations Marketing Medicare reform Raise campaign money for Obama, get taxpayer money from Obama An open letter to Barack Obama on his statements about the economy Four pivotal questions for Timothy Geithner Obama is beatable and he knows it Capitol Hill’s other dirty laundry New EPA regulations to improve the environment tank the economy The price of prohibition